This seminar intends to examine contemporary literary production with atransnational, or global focus as mediations of the socioeconomic changefrom Fordism to post-Fordism. As terms such as "globalization," "Empire"etc. are beginning to lose descriptive and analytical rigor, submissionsto this panel should examine contemporary literary production in relationto the concrete social and economic changes underlying the transition intopost-Fordism in order to arrive at a more concretely groundedinterrogation of the engagement of current literary production withcurrent political economy (as broadly, heuristically alluded to by theterminology mentioned above). It may then be even possible totheoretically refine such popular analytical categories as"globalization," or even "multitude." To that end this seminar invitesliterary papers engaging with this theoretical issue, as well as purelytheoretical analyses of post-Fordist culture and politicaleconomy/subjectivity.

Possible approaches to this topic may include:- cultural exchange in times of economic globalization- multiculturalism and post-Fordism- global determinations of local cultural and racial politics- the change of academic disciplines as determined by post-Fordism /transformations in the local/global socioeconomic structure- the cultural politics of flexible accumulation- the significance of new models of political economy for contemporaryliterary and cultural studies- the role of neoliberalism in the formation of contemporary politicalsubjectivity (potentially subcategorized into race, class and gender—e.g.the changing mobilization of the "traditionally" masculine, or theincreasing "productive" integration of formerly marginalized forms ofsubjectivity)- the cultural engagement with the (psychological) effects of radicalchanges regarding traditional Fordist categories such as "home/local(geographical, racial, gender) identity," "static ownership," "economicconservatism," "bureaucratic control and stability," etc.- cultural explorations of affective/immaterial labor- contemporary re-formulations of biopolitics in an increasinglyimmaterial economy

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Please send paper proposals not directly to this email address. Insteadthe ACLA reqests electronic submission of all required materials. Submitall proposals by visiting the following website (select the title of thisseminar and then fill out the submission form):http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/acla2007/?page_id=46

The deadline for paper submissions is November 1, 2006.

Seminars at the ACLA consist generally of 12 presentations divided up over3 days to facilitate intensive discussion, feedback and intellectualexchange.